Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: 9 April 2007

26 year old Camille Huot is one of our
French developers. He lives and works in Paris, France, but was born in La
Ciotat, which is near Marseilles in southern France. Camille lives together
with his brother, who has recently finished school and started working as a
C++ developer.

Cam studied at the University of Montpellier, and graduated with a Bachelor in
'Telecommunications and Network'. Later on he completed his studies with a
Masters degree. He was employed some time back as Linux Systems Administrator,
but got promoted recently to Oracle DB Administration. He's currently in
charge of ~150 servers at the Wanadoo hosting platform.

Camille learned Linux (Red Hat and Debian) at school. Later on, he switched to
FreeBSD, which he kept for some years, but finally 'had' to come back to Linux
due to a DSL driver. Gérald Fenoy convinced
Camille to try Gentoo, and he liked it :-)

Within Gentoo, Camille leads the French translation team. They currently have a
well-oiled team, and translate quite a few documents. He's also interested in
joining the Gentoo/FreeBSD team. Camille was recruited in January '04 by Xavier Neys, who has recently turned over the
torch of French Lead translator to Camille.

When Camille fires up his desktop, he uses: openbox, psi, opera, urxvt,
claws-mail, mplayer, gvim and some Google apps.

Have you ever installed something with a lot of dependencies? Have you ever
wanted to remove that package along with all of its dependencies? Instinct may
tell us that we can run emerge --depclean, however there is a different,
perhaps better way.

Lets say that we want to compare OpenOffice.org and koffice. Our plan is
to install both, try them out, and remove one of them. First, do:

This section lists packages that have either been moved or added to the tree
and packages that have had their "last rites" announcement given to be removed
in the future. The package removals come from many locations, including the Treecleaners and various developers. Most
packages which are listed under the Last Rites section are in need of some love
and care and can remain in the tree if proper maintainership is established.

The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org) to record and track
bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the
development team. Between 01 April 2007
and 08 April 2007, activity on the site has resulted in:

513 new bugs during this period

441 bugs closed or resolved during this period

23 previously closed bugs were reopened this period

161 closed as NEEDINFO/WONTFIX/CANTFIX/INVALID/UPSTREAM during this period

87 bugs marked as duplicates during this period

Of the 10000 currently open bugs: 14 are labeled 'blocker', 97 are labeled
'critical', and 353 are labeled 'major'.

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